Examples

• An article in Nature describes ceramist Pauline Wiertz's unique blend of shellfish and chicken feet to create an interesting piece that conveys our contemporary preoccupation with avian flu.
• Another Nature article discusses how an opera performance centered around the development of the first atomic bomb raises revelant issues that we still face today.
• Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds is a plasticized corpse exhibit whose mission is the education of laymen about the human body, leading to better health awareness.
• Hunter Cole, formally Hunter O'Reilly, is an internationally shown artist and experienced geneticist who reinterprets science as art through abstractions, digital art and installations.
• In In Acupuncture for Temporal Fruit, Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen have created an interactive "hastening" of the process of mold growing on a tomato.
• Bioscience Moves into Galleries as Bioart, an article in The Scientist, explains how artists use scientific techniques to create new forms.
• Wisconsin's Bucky Badger in nanofiber artistry.
• Controversy over whether or not artists were using lenses in the 1500's to create such works as Lorenso Lotto's Husband and Wife has made the public eye recently. (See article in Nature, March 2006)
• The most intimate self portrait: Artists dive inside the body to expose its secret elements.
• From science in art to the art of science: Martin Kemp, art historian.
• The artist as a neuroscientist: Artistic licence taps into the simplified physics used by our brain to recognize everyday scenes, says Patrick Cavanagh.
• Made With Molecules, Raven Hanna designs jewlery that is in the form of several different molecules
• Experimental physics, experimental art: Ken McMullen, artist and film-maker. What happens when artists and particle physicists are brought together to exchange ideas? Ken McMullen describes the creative fallout.

Culinary Arts

• Using chemicals to spice up your dishes: this new idea in cooking is called Molecular Gastronomy. Check out the Joy of Evidence-based Cooking (there is also a blog dedicated to this new art form, see below).

Dance

• Dancing Einstein: The Rambert Dance Company of London opened Constant Speed: Physics in Motion. This season, they present an exciting new work by Canadian choreographer André Gingras, Anatomica #3. It is about something we all own - the body. André's work has the trademark of breakneck speed and athletic movement.

Music

• The evolution of sensibility: Understanding the science behind aesthetic perception could guide and restrain the 'shock of the new' approach to music. Composer Roger Reynolds explains how.
• Music, the food of neuroscience? Playing, listening to and creating music involves practically every cognitive function. Robert Zatorre explains how music can teach us about speech, brain plasticity and even the origins of emotion.

Theater/Musical

• Starry Messenger, a portrait of an astronomy teacher at the Hayden Planetarium in New York
• Fermat's Last Tango: about "Fermat's Last Theorem," the famous unsolved mathematics problem set forth by Pierre de Fermat in 1637.
• Constant Speed: Physics in Motion coreographed by Mark Baldwin (LONDON)
• Chimera, a play that explores the world of stem cell research
• Background, based on the cosmologist Ralph Alpher
• Tom Stoppard's time-bending chaos theory play Arcadia
• Copenhagen, a exploration of the Heisenberg-Bohr meeting in 1941
• LEAP, a historical and scientific fiction account of Sir Isaac Newton
• Explore M Theory and high-energy particle physics in the play, Baby M
• QED, a new work by Peter Parnell in which Mr. Alda portrays the physicist Richard Feynman
• David Auburn's "Proof," which hinges on the disputed authorship of a mathematical work, won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for drama and is still running on Broadway (interview)
• Calculus, written by Carl Djerassi (review in Nature)
• Oxygen, a play about the priority disputes in the history of science

Resources

• The Institute For Figuring is an organization dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts.